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From the Kentucky Farmer.
STBICTt/KIS ON THE ANIMATED CHE ATfON.
Man.--Of all animals, man is certainly
the most prone to ferocity; it may be accounted
for as being both carniverous and
frugiroroua, which puts all the other animals
of the creation, fit for food, under
^ his control, in order to satisfy his real
" wants or to gratify his more luxurious appetites.
Unlike the other animals, roan
oon acquires the habit of destroying for ^
the mere pleasure of doing it, with epicurean
luxury in his own way. The wild
hunter, after all his wants are supplied,
will kill buffaloes merely for the tongues ?
or to eat their marrow and haunch, and
abandon the rest to the birds and wolves, ,
who, if they reflect at all, learn to look
upon man as a powerful auxiliary to their
prowling warfare. Not content with ,
their own resources, and conscious of his
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inferior powers, men has associated some
of the animal crca'ion to his destructive s
wants and pleasures, and made their r
natural cruelty, if they had any, subserv. J1
lent to his own will, or if they have none, ^
they are taught to acquire it. The way
in which their services are too often re- 0
quired, is too well known to be dwelt f
upon. We shall only observe that the 1
eight beautiful old grey horses, who had r
so loog dragged Queen Charlotte of Eng- v
land, were immediately after her death c
"shot for the hounds." Man, left to n
himself, can seldom improve his good pro- ti
penalties, and the absolute decree has h
said, M it is not good for man to be alone;" q
by this it is not understood that he shall M
confine himself to the society of men only,
for nothing can be worse for inen
than their owo exclusive society. Civili. ^
ration has wiselv encouraged the social
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intercourse of both sexes to soften the asperity
of man's temper, and to bring out 1
his better faculties. But even the excess M
of civilization is to be dreaded, inasmuch ^
as it gives rise to new wants, and of course 1
to an inordinate thirst for riches, the at. t
tainment of which can seldom be accom- o
^ pti?hed without crime, or at least without c
relinquishing the moral and virtuous prin- t
ciples so necessary for the duration of f
mpirea, or true domestic happiness.? i
Over-civilization has a pernicious influ* f
ence on the female sex. Women often j,
peculate on matrimony with as much t
keenness as the male stock-jobber on pub. ^
lie funds, with whst success is best known
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to themselves; and it is truly for that class ! '
that marriage is become an awful lottery j a
of many blanks to a prize. When the i u
tate of morality becomes so low, selfish- |
nets increases >n proportion and celibacy ' v
is encouraged, at least in large towns; but | h
farmers and other useful men want wives ! g
toadd to their comforts and share in their a
prosperity. In vain does a manoeuvring v
mother produce all her fashionable daugh- "f
tors to the markets of fashion: men do not fwant
them; they are a dead stock, too of- j
ton seen to be of any value. ^
Domestic education alone can retard f
and counteract these evils, and there it is
that the influence of good mothers is and b
ought to be felt; in vain shall we pay for 1
the beat education abroad. YYrc may ac. 8
quire a complete knowledge of the classics, r
the modern languages, and all the &c's. of i
learning. If at home sons and daughters t
are neglected as to the fundamental prin.
ciples of honesty, self-denial, modesty t
and moderation, no professor can give ri
them. There is no state so low in socie- j
ty that cannot afford that kind of domes. t
tie instruction to their children; and j(
mothers are best to watch over and punish t
the bad dispositions of their children.?
As to the mode of instruction for mothers ,
even of the less informed class, those
who speak in pub'ic might retrench some ^
part of their sermons, exhortations, or ^
politics, to expatiate upon the real duties ^
of mankind, address themselves to the *
understanding of mothers, and explain t
their obligations towards their children, t
and the high importance of parental ex. ?
amptes on the future welfare and re. (
pectahility of their offspring. A few
welhplaced lectures from the teachers ,
tiiemselvs upon that which constitutes the .
social virtues of man, provided thev were ! ^
short, and well adapted to the comprehen- j
ston of their hearers, wouid certainly have
a good effect, as many circumstances
may prevent a man from being learned,
but none will excuse him for being a
rogue or a vicious being.
ft in thought, generally, that man being
ndowed with reason, is more easily im?
proved than animals; a perfect study of
both might induce a philosopher to doubt
this assertion. If reason does much for
man, his passions but too often counteract !
that faculty of which we are so proud.? 1
As to what we call instinct of animals, it i
seems to be but another sort of reason,
adapted to the wants of beasts, and even
so far susceptible of improvement as to be (
no longer the blind i mpulses of nature,
but in some degree joined to the faculty
of memory and reflection; those powers
increasing in proportion with the acquired
wants of the animal. I
The Horse. ?If I chose him as best '
calculated to support my assertions, it is '
not without reasons, having had more <
opportunities than most men to observe
him. A horse, six years old, had been |
purchased in this town hy a rrencn cir- 1
:us rider, who spoke no Eoglish in teach, j
ing his horses; the animal had beon used |
ill his life to the English sounds; he must ,
therefore have learned to receive the im. ,
iression of the French sounds, and not ,
Dnlv of the sounds, but of their meaning,
10 different from the English. In one
month the horse obeyed all his master's 1
commands in that language so new to 1
lim; even if we suppose that the lash
lelped this quickness in learning, where
s the child, of the best abilities, that <
rould be taught in so short a time, taking *
;ven the relative proportion between the 1
comparative age of man and horse. <
I do not wish to lower man's reason i
>ciow the brute; all I wish to establish is, i
hat it was possible for the Supreme Being j
o endow many animals with more un> ,
lerstanding than we generally suppose,
rhat a colt should follow his mother in
he woods is the impulse of nature, but
las she taught him to find his way home
Mo rnotia whpn his I
IIIVU^Il il?v TTIIUVl lav^y wmwm ^
ider himself is bewildered? Leaving the |
teaten track, he swims rivers, climbs
nountains, and reaches his home by the
traightest and shortest way, which he
ever travelled before. The learned
nan takes out his compass, the Indian
noks at the bark of trees ; what had the
lorse to direct him? If "instinct" alone
:an do this, how far inferior is it to the
eason of man ? A horse of mine ran off
n the night from a place where he had
lever been before, 20 miles from home,
vhich he reached the next day at 12 o'iock,
having gone over steep hills in the
lost direct und shortest way, where hi*
racks were seen. I owned another
orse later, who staid in a yard, the bars
f which were near his stable; when he
ranted to go out, he would take down
wo or three bars with his teeth, and
imp over the rest, most often go to the
fell, where two buckets go alternately up
nd down. When there was no water
n the trough, he would seize the rope
rith his teeth, and endeavor to draw the
ucket, or at least to make enough noise
o bring somebody to get water for him,
hen he would let go the rope and neigh
n seeing the person. In order to se.
ure the bars, I put a strong peg and a
wine on the upper one, but he soon
onnd that by pulling the twine he could .
ake out the peg, and went over as beore.
I then put a gate with a falling
ii
itch, hut ne ovcrcume inui new uiiucui- ^
y, and opening with his head the gate
or histuo companions, who seemed to
ratch his operations, he let them out, (
nd went last, the gate shutting almost ?
ipon his hind legs. c
He was an excellent and safe gig horse; g
^hen harnessed, he would invariably turn <
lis head, and look attentively who was c
;oingioridc ; his look said as plainly 1
a looks could do, I must go according to '
our temper; ii it was myself he went '
ast, if it was any outer member of the ?
ainily he would consult his own leisure ; 1
f any part of his harness was loose or
roke, he would stop short, and if urged
o go on, after going a few steps, he would <
top again, which after having observed <
he horse's intentions, some of us would t
ilight, and find either a buckle, or some 1
>ther part of the harness amiss, that J
night have become dangerous if it had 1
>een left unmended.
All mv remarks, however imperfect, on 1
he animal part of the creation, proves to
ne that we ought to treat them differently j
f we wish to profit more effectually by
heir services. How many horses are <
[>st by the brutality of their masters, or
heir keepers ? Men and horses brought
ip gently, are certainly easier to lead and
Irive when grown up. The Arab keeps
lis horse in the same tent with his chilIren,
who sleep even in his legs. Let a
lorse run even in the field, a man or boy
vants to catch him, he runs, because
hreatsand blows awa't him when caught,
>ut a woman by going more gontlv, is
ipt to catch him, by inspiring him with
nore confidence.
Afarshalc Sax urging his horse to leap
i ravine, was surprised to see him back,
l cannon ball crossed the ravine, after
which fiie horse leaped over without any
mArA iivmit/* If ? ! 1
uiwio ll>B' n' 11 "as asccruuiieu uiai
the marsSmle would have been killed had 1
\\is horse obeyed the spur. His master ;
rewarded shat sesvice by assigning him <
i pension during his life. Who can exilain
those assemblies ofcrows and black- I
^rdsthat uomc to a particular spot to '
consult on what they had best do to lind 1
their food ! Who is Dot forced to ad- '
mire the different propensities of tke dog, '
his fidelity, his almost hums n intelligence,
his devoted love to his master whom he
saves from drowning or being killed, at
the risk of his own life, and for what re- *
ward/ Not ei en the hope of any ! One
of my dogs that had been taught nothing
of the kind, had laid down several hours
at some distance from the house, he
would not come when called; at last, on
going to him, I saw him lying upon a
leather throat-latch, left there by the
black boy; when I took it up the dog
:ame home joyfully.
An elephant had been deceived by a
painter who wanted to draw his portrait
with tl*e mouth open; the painter, after
having thrown apples in his mouth several
times, at last made only the gesture,
which the elephant resented by filling his
trunk with dirty water, he blew it in a j
torrent upon the painter's paper, and ^
spoilt his drawing; this we may call "in.
itinct but it is certainly of a very supe- j
rior kind.
A very large volume might be lilted
ivith proofs that what we call the instinct *
jf animals is not as blind a faculty m we
ire pleased to believe; and the author of 1
the creation has .extended its limits and
capabilities of improvement; in proportion to
their wants either in relation to their '
i
utility to themselves or to man. Let us y
treat them with kindness which will J
give full scope to their natural abilities.
W. MENTELLE. \
ths usb of limb*
Messrs. Editors?Although the agriculturists
of the other great divisions of
the earth, have availed themselves for
centuries, (Pliny informs us that lime was
ised as a manure by the Romans, the
Sauls and the Britons in his time,) of the
extraordinary virtues of this mineral, to !
improve the soil or prevent exhaustion,
ind it is now being applied lavishly by the
rery best farmers of our country, with
ncalculable advantage on every variety !
)f soils, yet the mass of the people of the
United States, are obstinate skcptics with 1
egard to its fertilizing properties. We *
ldmit some agricultural districts continue 1
rery productive without any application
>f!ime; but these soils cdL either are .
bund to contain a due proportion of car- '
>onate of lime, or they are plentifully 1
supplied by their owners with animal matures,
which contain the necessary alkaine
substances for vegetation ; howe ver, !
he, addition of lime, still would produce !
wonderful effects eventually. Lime be- j
ng an essential constituent of the pabuli)um
of plants, none perhaps requiring in (
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their organization a larger prupumuu v?
ime thr.n wheat; without lime being
zontainecl in the soil, gluten, an important
:omponent property in the grain of wheat,
:annot be formed ; hence the necessity of
supplying soils which have been exhausted,
or have been in their natural formation
destitute of carbonate of lime, It is
'ustus necessary as to furnish fowls with
ime and silex, in the absence of which
their eggs would be laid without shells.
Why then, is it, that the fanners of New
England, and indeed many in this and
)ther States, cannot grow wheat on uoils
wxc% which yielded golden harvests to their
iriginal pioneers? The reason is plain
ind incontrovertible; the farmers have
ixhausted their soils of the necessary eonitituen
ts of wheat, and especially line?
So let them supply the defective material
it any reasonable expense, and their
unds will produce as formerly. Eventjally
the farmes's success and prospe ritv
vill almost hinge on the regntar and judicious
application of lime, or other alkalies,
n its absence.?Cultivator. ^
MAKING PORK. I
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MESSRS. I^ditoks?I mn ia*uicu w,- ?
jasionally with an opportunity oflooking t
)ver different agricultural journals, and in <
i late number of the Boston Cultivator, i
[ noticed a statement on fattening hogs, j
jartof which I copy for your paper, ad- <
ling some remarks, and a little of my ex- j
leriencc in the same business. The state- |
nent is by Mr. Smith, of Duxbury, Mass. ?
44 I killed two hogs, one sow, and six j
jigs which the sow raised; their weights
were, the two hogs 631, and 566 lbs., the '
tow 509, the six pigs 1,200 lbs. Total 1
2,906 pounds.
44 They have eat *250 bushels of corn a
30 cts. $150 ; and 200 bushels of vegetans
at 30 cents, making in the whole
$210. ]
44 My manner of feeding them waj as *
follows : From the first day of September I
to the first day of March, their <
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jreakfast was raw potatoes; incir <
iinner raw turneps, beets or
:arrots ; their supper one quart of corn
3ach. The first day of March I filled *
their trough with corn and water, und !
1 4 * ? ? ?! *ko /low I Lrillt?rl thnm I I '
ivepi 11 su uiiiii IIIO VIUJ & '? * |
lad a warm place for them to sleep in ; '
md a yard where I make my manure 30 '
by 26 feet, with a stone bottom, and have
now in it, which I have made this summer,
125 horse loads. I care not vvhut the 5
breed of a hog is, if they will eat well, '
ind we do our part, and give them plenty I
of corn." I
Now for my evperience. Last year I i
fe 1 six . hogs, about 18 months old. They > j
lad the run of pasture, and the slops of!,
the kitchen in the summer, and were partj (
up for feeding the middle of September.',
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ro feed them, 1 put in my hog house 150
mshels of potatoes, and 250 bushels of
ipples. These were cooked in a steamer
antainiog about 15 bushels, and the pro>ortions
used wero about equal. .AH the
^rain I fed them was not equal in value to
ive bushel, of corn. They were killed
he first of December : Lightest 345, hea,
riest 430, average 375, total weight 2,250
bs. Mr. Smith does not jay what his
?ork was worth, perhaps $4, perbas $9
>ercwt. If the first, it was worth $116,.
14 if the last, $232,48. At the same
ates mine would have been worth $90
>r$180. Now for the expense of feeding,
tiy potatoes were worth eighteen cents
>er bushel, my apples perhaps 10 cts.,
:ertainly ikit more ; making for both poatoes
and apples, a- value of Dot. 42;
:all the grain Dol, 3, and the value of the
t i f . i n.i a r. r.nm
?11016 icxkj uf j/ult to* ruitj'iito iiuui
wo hundred and ten, would leave one
hundred and sixty-five as the differences in
the cost of feeding the two lots ; comparatively
the operation would stand as
follows:
No. Total Cost of Valne
ufpigs. weijht. feeding, at $4 or $8
Mr. Smith's, 9 29' * $210 $116 24233.48
Vine, 6 2256 45 90 180
Difference, 3 651) $161 $26.24 52.48
Thus it appears that at the least price
Mr. Smith lost in feeding Dol. 82,70 and
it the highest gained only Dol. 22, 48;
while at the lowes t rate mine exceeded
he cost of feeding Dol. 45, and at the
lighbst. Dol. 1515. It must be remembered,
however, that the value of the hogs,
md the labor cf feeding is omitted in all
these estimates, and should be deducted
to ascertain the true profit or loss of the
feeding.
I cannot agree with Mr. Smith that the
tireed of hogs is of no consequence so long
is there is corn enough. I am satisfied
tiy experience that there is a difference
among our swine (excluding the pet
breeds of Berkshire and China,) so great,
that at the same age, the same quantity of
food will make 50 per cent more pork in
pne breed than in another. I have been
led to believe that the criterion of value in
i hog, was, not in the quantity of food he
:ould eat, but in the flesh the food would
make. I am mire my brother farmers
must love raising corn better than I do
raluable as the crop is, if they prefer feeding
pigs a year on the grain unbroken,
ind the rools raw, to using one-half the
juantity of corn so required, when ground
md mixed with the same roots, or a larger
quantity steamed. In my opinion cookng
food for animals is one of the greatest
mprovements in modern husbandry, and
feeding grain as was done by Mr. S. a
Jownright waste; and I am glad to perieive,
by his comments on Mr, Smith's
etter, that Mr. Buckminister is of the
>ame opinion.
In one thing the statement of Mr. S.
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laa IIJ^ lliuai luiuiai aawui j m<u ? ?*
d the value of hog manure, and the pro>riety
of increasing it as much as possible.
Pigs are excellent workers at that busiiess,
if the proper materials are provided.
[ have a yard like Mr. S., but without
lis stone boitom. Into this, straw, weeds,
ind muck, are put as wanted, or as most
:onvenient, and are thoroughly incorporaed
with the manure and urine by treadng
and rooting. These materials absorb
tnd retain the ]>arts that would be most
ikely to escape and the whole ma9s apdied
to a corn or root crop in the spring,
vill give an increased crop in many cases
equivalent to half the ordinary product,
tnd nearly defraying the expense of feedng.
An Onondaga. Farmer.
to destroy moth.
A friend of our from Muskinghain
nurniitiin rpmiPMta tin to state that the
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following very simple expedient for deitroying
moths, those troublesome insects
which often make such havoc
imong honey bees. In the evening,
ivhen the moths begin to fly about, he
slaced saucers or bowls filled with boiled
:ider, around his hives, and some mornings
the whole surface of the fluid would
5e covered with those bee rormenters.?
rhey appeared not to have troubled the
>ees at all, but to have collected on the
zider. This expedient he says he has
tried and found to succeed well.
Zanesville Gaz.
WHEAT.
\t^,? I> A Ar S Small, nf Vnrlr
A \JL> ^vi * ? j
Pa. have addressed to the editors of the
4American" the following note, relative
lo a species of wheat grown by them,
which they dfcern worthy the attention
>f agriculturists.
"We noticed in the ?Amcrican'of25th
f'.inc, some remarks on several specimens
af white wheat cut; from the fields of xMr.
Joseph Pearson, near Baltimore. We
presume they are the produce of the seed
got from us last season. The large grain
wheat, (call it what you please) is of
foreign orisrin. brought to this country
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iboqt five years ago. A small quantity
was sown by a gentleman of this town
but it did not succeed very well, having
fro2;eu out. It appeared as though it
sould not stand a hard winter. Thinking
it worth a trial, however, we procured
<ome seed and have been successfql iq its
:ultivation ever since, and are of the
opinion that it has now become acclima.
ted. We have do hesitation in saying c
that it will produce as much to the acre i
as any other wheat we evfr saw, with i
perhaps the exception of the Genessee, <
which is also a very handsome, white I
sort, with a red chafF. The heads of this <
latter are remarkable for their size, being j
nearly twice the length of the generality <
of wheat grown in this region. As we
have never heard of its cultivation here,
tofore, we think it well to state how it
was brought forward, which was in the
following manner. About 4 years ago
we sowed an excellent sort of wheat,
which we obtained from Mr. Stanley, of
your city, which he called Genessee.?
When we were cutting it, our late father,
a short time before his death, noticed some
heads which were remarkable for their
size and beauty. We accordingly selec.
ted as many as produced a few quarts of
grain, and we sowed this and its produce
from time to time, and find that it has
not degenerated. In this way we think
we have succeeded in introducing, if not
producing, a species of wheat which is
worth the attention of agriculturists. As
it regards the quality for bread of the
above two kinds, the large grain?or
mountain wheat, if you please?is the
best we ever ground in our millls. We
obtained half a bushel of the famous
Rock wheat last season, and sowed it in
the same field with the Mountain and
Genessee?Hind although it is guod it ,
bears no comparison with either of the
others."
PBEPABATIOX OP HAXS IX KENTUCKY.
Messrs. Gaylord and Tucker?There
hare been published many modes of cu*
ring bacon; and in the cases in which
these have been the result of experience
they may all be successful, and entitled
to the confidence of the public. Some,
perhaps, are more simple, less laborious
and more uniformly safe thun others.?
The following mode has stood the test of
thirty.five years' experience without a
single failure?of twenty .seven years in
Spottsylvania county, Virginia, and of
eight in Kentucky, where I now reside.
I can, therefore recommend it as a safe
and certain mode of making sound, sweet
bacon. The salt used in Virginia was
Liverpool blown salt; in Kentucky the
Kanhawa and Goose creek. The ashes
from hickory or the sugar maple.
I will now begin at the beginning, and
describe the whole process minutely, premising
however, that to have good bacon
we must have good pork, neatly dressed
or cleaned. It is important that the
hogs should ho killed in proper weather,
by which I mean that the weather should
be such that the hogs, hung up after they
are cleaned, should not be only cold to
the touch, but feel stiff, not frozen, after
hanffins up till the animal heat is out. 1
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always kill oo one day, and cut out and
salt up the next. If the weather is quite
cold after they are stiff, I put the hogs in
the cellar that they may not freeze ; if
the weather is moderately cool, I let them
hang up in the air all night. The cutting
out is the next operation. This
need not be described further than to say
that the back bone or chine should be
taken out, as also the spare ribs from the
shoulders, and the mouse pieces and short
ribs or griskins from the middlings. No
acute angles should be left to shoulders
or hams. In salting up in Virginia. I
put all the meat, except the heads, jowls,
chines, and smaller pieces, into jmodering
tubs (water tight half-hogsheads.) In
Kentu ky I have used large troughs, ten
^ i? *L? __ e?
Iieei long mreo or iuui icci mu^- > ? mv
top, made of the Liriodendron tulipfera or
poplar tree. These are mucn the most
convencient for packing the meat in, and
are easily caulked if they should crack so
as to leak. The salting tray or box in
which the meat is salted, piece by piece."
and from which each piece, as it is salted,
is to be transferred to the powdering tub
or trough, must be placed just so near the
trough, that the in.tn standing between
can transfer the piece from one to the
other easily, and without wasting the salt
as they are lifted from the salting box
into the trough. The salter stands on
the offside of the salting box. Silt the
hams first, the shoulders next, and the
middlings last, which may be piled up two
feet above the top of the trough or tub.?
The joints will thus in a short time be
immersed in brine.
Measure into \our salting trav, four
measures of salt, (a peck measure I have
found most convenient,) and one measure
1 J?- ?J ncUtxa rrtIV and If].
! oi cieari ary biucu uou^, ?.. ? ...
corporate thorn well. The salter takes a
ham into the tray, rubs the skin side with
this composition and tho raw hock ends,
turns it over and packs the composition of
salt and ashes on the fleshy side till it is at
least three quarters of an inch deep all
over it, and as much on the interior lower
part of the ham, which is covered with
the skin, as will lay on it. The roan who
stands ready to transfer the pieces as
they ^|ted? tajfps up the piece and
flepotyfs if fiapfally displacing
iHA composition, with tfyeskjp side down,
;n the bottom pf the trough. Each wc
reeding bam is thus deposited side hy
lide, so as to leave the least possible space
moccupied. When the bottom is all
covered, see that every visible pert of
:his layer of meat is covered with the
composition of salt and ashes* Then bejin
another layer, every piece beingcov*
id on the upper or fleshy side three quar*
ters of an inch thick with the compost*
tion. When your trough is filled efW
full in this way with the joints, salt the
middlings with salt only without the
ashes, and pile them upon the joints so ?
that the liquified salt may pass from them
into the trough. Heads, jowls, back*
bones, &c., receive salt only, and should *
not be put in the trough with the large
pieces* Much slighter writing will pie* ?
serve them if they are salted upon loose
boards, so that the bloody - brine from
them can pass off. The joints and mid*
dlings are to remain in and above the
trough without being rehandled, resalted
or disturbed in any way till they are hong
up to be smoked. If the hogs weighed
not more than 150 pounds, the joints need
not remain longer than five weeks in the
pickle ; if they weighed 200, or upwards,
six or seven weeks is not too long* It is
better that they should stay in too long
rather than too short a time. In three
weeks, jowls, &c. may be hung up.?
Taking out of pickle and preparation for
hanging up to smoke is thus performed:
Scrape off the undissolved salt, and if
you had put on as much as directed, there
will he a considable quantity on all the
pieces not immersed in the brine. Tlue.
salt and she brine is all saved $ the brine
boiled down and the composition given to
stock, especially to hogs. Wash every
piece in lukewarm water, and with e
rough towel clean off salt and ashes.?
Put the strings in to hang up. in Vir*
ginia I used for strings white oak splits,
in Kentucky hempen strings. Set the
pieces up edgewise that they may drain
and dry. Every piece is then to be dip*
ped into the mrat point, and hung op to
smoke. The meat paint is made of
warm, not hot, water and very fine ash*
es, stirred together till they are of the
consistence of thick peint. When the
pieces are dipped in this, they receive a
- - -? - iL
coating which protects *nem irom me uj,
prevents dripping, and tendf to lessen all
external injurious .nfluences. Hang tip
while the pieces are yet moist with the
paint, and smoke them well. 'In this way
I have cured from six to eight thousand
pounds of bacon every year, for twenty9
-yen years in Virginia, and eight io
Kentucky.
I use at least three bushels of salt'to
1,200 pounds of meat. This may be
thought extravagant but it insures success,
and none of it lost. For what is left!
is all fed to the stock, and being mixed
with ashes, I believe has a tendency to
promote their health more than nit
alone.
Should you desire it, I will, at some
future time, give you our mode of drying
" .1.. ?l.4
up lard, wnicn is noi exactly ut? ui
common use.
Vorv truly, your obedient serv't,
JOHN LEWIS,
Llangollen, Ky.. March, 15 1841.
Cultivator.
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Curr of LockJaw ijt a Mark.?0#.
ing to the adoption of a remedy suggested
in the Hereford Journal, a valuable mare,
the properly ot Mr. S.anbury, of L d,otv,
was recently effectually saved from death
by lock jaw, produced by mal treatment
for sand-crack. We give the de'ail of
the circumstance in the words of the own*
er of the animal:?1* In consequence of
one of the tendons being injured by a
smith, lock-jaw was cau ;ed: the best advice
was procured, but it proved of no avail,
the mare gradually sun'< day by day for upwards
of a fortnight, and my distress at
seeing, a creature, which had been my
companion for years, suffer so much, ia
duced me at last to give directions tnat
she should bo shot. I loft home in the
morning, and mentioned the circumstances
to a friend wno is a subscriber to the
Hereford Jouri.a', and. to my surprise,
he pointed out a case of a cure of lock*
jaw, mentioned in an old number of the
paper. Many minutes did not elapse before
I was on my road home to countermand
the order for the destruction of the
animal, and the proposed remedy was
immediately put in of>eration. Between
two and three hogsheads of water was
thrown upon her spine and repeatedly. I
thonght she must sink under it, but persevering,
I at last perceived her skin as it
were to creep upon her; this over,
she was well wrapped up in blankets, and,
by kind treatment and diligent attention
to her, with nourishing diet and gruel,
she recovered, and has since been as well
? u. ' TKa Aumnr nf the animal
M C Y ji SUO ITMt A uu vt?
is naluralty anxious that the case should
be made known for the benefit of tha
public, and because be thinks this is a
striking proof of the utility of the hints
frequently given in newspapers.
Horses.?To form a proper idea of this
noble aod generous creature we ought to
see him in his native wilds, untamed and
undisciplined by man. Wild horses are
found in several part* of the old continent
and in |tho warm climates of Africa.
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